Peter Kellner
The bass/bass-baritone Peter Kellner hails from the Slovak Republic and studied at the Conservatory in Košice, at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and completed his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
He was awarded the Independent Opera Fellowship at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, the second prize and audience prize at the International Mozart Competition Salzburg in 2018, and the first prize at the International Feruccio Tagliavini Competition in Deutschlandsberg.
Since the 2018/19 season, Peter Kellner has been a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera. In the 2019/20 season, he appeared there as Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Il re di Scozia in Ariodante, and Leporello in Don Giovanni. He achieved great success as Colline at the Royal Opera House in London.
He made his Vienna State Opera debut as Panthée in Berlioz’s Les Troyens, followed by debuts as Ratcliffe (Billy Budd) at Covent Garden London and as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Volksoper Wien and the Glyndebourne Festival.
As Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), he appeared at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. Further debuts included Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the title role in Handel’s Hercules at the Staatstheater Oldenburg, Colas (Bastien und Bastienne) at the Macao Opera Festival, Le Gouverneur (Le Comte Ory) at the Klosterneuburg Festival, Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore) at the Staatstheater Banská Bystrica, and Sciarrone (Tosca) with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
He sang his role debuts as Colline and Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. In 2013, he appeared at the Salzburg Festival as Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail für Kinder and in Don Carlo under the baton of Antonio Pappano.
As a member of the Oper Graz ensemble (2015/16–2017/18), he appeared as Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Doctor Grenvil (La traviata), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Colline (La Bohème), Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims), and in the title role of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.